How You Use Social Media Can Kill Your Business

The social media movement has expanded the number of people we can reach and connect with on a personal level. The new relationships and connections we create with people all over the world can have a profound effect on our personal and business growth. We learn about cultures and nations that we were, perhaps, previously […]

7 Social Media Tactics for Explosive Results in Your Business

Tinu AbayomiPaul First, let’s define the term Explosive Results for our usage. A standard social media campaign helps spread the word about you and encourages other people to as well. An explosive social media campaign has inherent viral exposure, inspires community driven communication, helps make the web a better place, and even brings joy to […]

Social Media Marketing / Do Not Make These Mistakes

By Enzo F. Cesario The Cluetrain Manifesto asserts that “Markets are Conversations.” The Manifesto is a document published in 1999 and 10 years later is still considered to be an outstanding treatise on the Internet phenomenon – in regards to the impact and opportunities of Internet and web technology on the modern businessman. Nowhere has […]

How Much Can Social Bookmarking Really Do For Your Website?

By: Stephanie Foster Lately I’ve become fascinated with social bookmarking. It’s a vital part of any Web2.0 website marketing strategy, and being discovered through social bookmarks can mean floods of traffic. The catch is that the traffic isn’t always buying or clicking traffic, but it can be traffic that build backlinks to your site. It […]

3 Tried-n-True Ways to Decide Which Social Media Tools to Use

By Lani and Allen Voivod At a recent Social Media-themed breakfast event for New Hampshire’s Greater Manchester Chamber of Commerce, one speaker (Leslie Poston, co-author of Twitter for Dummies) told the assembled audience there were 537 different social networking sites online. 537! And that doesn’t even count all the networks on Ning and other services […]

How To Podcast Using WordPress

Author: Danny Wirken Podcasting is the next step up from blogging. While blogging is done by armies of pajama-clad ordinary people, podcasting is done by many of these same people, though less often in pajamas, in front of a digital or audio recorder. Short pieces are recorded, then distributed via RSS 2.0 or Atom to […]

Moving Your WordPress Blog

Author: Danny Wirken Moving a blog can make it unreachable for 24 – 72 hours, unless the new domain name has fully propagated around the Internet. It is just the way it is and WordPress doesn’t have anything to do with such limitation. Moving is best done when you have the time or have planned […]

What I've Learned from Facebook

Author: Hamidah Gul Facebook has created a unique way of maintaining your friends in a virtual hangout. With Facebook, you can send someone a virtual gift, hug, food, and even money! A friend just sent me a cool $10 in Facebook. Now what can I get with that? Virtually nothing. Still if you are a […]

7 Tips How To Make Your Podcasts Shine

By Stephanie Ciccarelli Know Your Competition Are there a large number of other people Podcasting about the same subject matter as you? You should be aware of your competition’s websites and their Podcasting topics. Try to offer something different. Offer your customers something that is relevant, interesting and unique or that puts a unique spin […]

You Must Use Social Media to Promote Your Brand

If you think Twitter, Facebook, and other online social media communities are only for teens, you’re missing out on valuable and free marketing platforms for your brand (book, business or product). Further, if you’re not on social media, you’re risking losing your own potential clients/customers to those smart business people who are utilizing social media. […]

The Next Evolution of Social Media

By Jennifer Osborne If you aim to establish your site as a serious ecommerce player, here are 3 things you need to do: Create and put up a privacy policy. Process orders on a secure server. Get 3rd party verification to increase credibility. Each is easy to do – but many ecommerce newbies underestimate their […]

8 Rules for Social Media Optimization

By SEO Sapien Social media has come to play an incredibly important role in the marketing campaigns of a variety of different businesses. Here are 8 rules of social media optimization that you must follow to ensure that you maximize the results of your social media marketing campaign. 1. Increase Your Website’s Linkability The problem […]